What White Women Want, Surprisingly the GOP
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on November 14th, 2009 5:30 am by HL
What White Women Want, Surprisingly the GOP
David Paul Kuhn, RCP
This week, Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, a Florida Democrat, told reporters the GOP offers a “back-of-the-hand treatment to women.” Later she said two conservative female representatives only serve to further “repulse women.” You see, Schultz said on MSNBC, Republicans “don't really get very many women when it comes to elections.”The week before, in Virginia, the Republican gubernatorial candidate actually won women. And in blue New Jersey, the Republican won white women by 18 percentage points. Receive news alertsLast year John McCain won a majority of the…
Dunn Takes Parting Shot At FOX News
Sam Stein, Huffington Post
In a parting shot at Fox News, White House Communications Director Anita Dunn mocked the conservative-leaning network on Friday and laughed off its controversial host Glen Beck for calling her a Mao enthusiast.The outgoing administration spokeswoman took a clear and enjoyable dig, first at Sean Hannity for recently airing spliced footage designed to make a crowd of anti-health care protesters seem bigger than reality.”A fun fact from this week is that an opinion show on a certain news network was using edited footage to make it appear that a rally last week, and political opposition to…
Can the Clinton Coalition Survive Obama?
Sean Trende, RealClearPolitics
John Judis and Ruy Teixeira's well-regarded 2002 work The Emerging Democratic Majority begins with a vignette set in Virginia. They tell the story of a telecom executive named Mark Warner, who runs a moderate campaign that appeals to upper-middle class suburbanites and working class rural voters, and manages to put together a winning coalition that, if imitated in other states, might put the Democrats in power for decades to come.Democrats did build coalitions similar to Warner's, and in fact had been doing so for the better part of a decade. Warner's coalition was essentially…
